Overall, state and local funding for D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) falls below per pupil funding of all but the of the surrounding suburban districts..

Your link above didn’t work.. (perhaps it was the formatting of the message system of the blog..) is this the paper you were referring to..from 2003..?
http://www.washlaw.org/pdf/DC_Public_School_Funding_Report_Feb2003.pdf

Perhaps I misread it but the paper i found indicated that DC ranked 3rd out of 6 when compared to surrounding suburban counties, not last. Note that these the DC area (including Washington DC..) has some of best funded districts in the country. Per the NEA when ranked against the other 50 states (for educational comparisons DC is classified as a state..) per pupil DC was number 1 in spending per pupil. However when there was an adjustment for the cost of living it was 13th. Unfortunately the spending has not yielded commiserate results. At least two places where Black students have excelled is in the US military schools (Children of military staff who attend on base schools…) and home schooled students. Black students at DOD schools: http://www.jstor.org/pss/4133712

I would like to see studies that showed demonstrated/documented these successes and have that success replicated. I can easily believe that many predominantly Black school districts are underfunded but at least with DC’s example increasing the funding to levels higher than states that are predominantly White (Such as the Dakotas…) does not necessarily lead to academic success. The US has doubled (adjusted for inflation..) per pupil funding for schools since 1980 but has barely budged standardized test results, graduation rates etc. The US has some of the highest per pupil spending per GDP K-12 education spending per pupil on the planet but we rank poorly against many industrial nations. Money helps but it would appear that is not a solution in and of itself.

Maybe kissing white behind is a kind of fetish in and of itself, these self-loathing clowns seem to get off on it. I’ve met self-loathers like that. They go out of their way to avoid other blacks as you said. You see, they ain’t like us lowly nigras! I’ve seen these clowns get done over by the very whites whose favour the toady to, it ain’t nice! The fall out was catacysmic. Guess who they ran to?

A huge hole in the black pathology or cultural racism argument is that even when you compare just middle-class blacks to middle-class whites, a comparison which throws out all those supposedly Shiftless Negroes of the Inner City, you STILL see considerable differences by race in unemployment rates, household wealth, life expectancy and reading scores.

Are such metrics enough to diagnose racism? If so, why aren’t you going after the Asians and Jews who outperform the baseline for whites?

Exactly. I, personally, refuse to be a stereotype for whites. The sad thing is, most of the black people who live in my neck of the woods are so immersed in their own self-hatred that kissing white ass is much more palatable to them than deigning to speak to a person who shares their skin color, and who just might share similar experiences. But no, they would rather sell their souls and eschew camaraderie solely to satisfy their desparate need to be accepted by whites – and that acceptance can and will be withdrawn for no cause. I think whites seem to get some sort of charge over that behavior – yet another way for them to feel good about themselves by treating another human being like shite.

Ain’t it the truth? As long as one, just one, black person portrays negative stereotypes, old or contemporary, that’s more than enough to satisfy white people’s fetish with black stereotypes. More than one will give them extreme orgasms, making them feel great about not being black.

“not taking away from some of the interesting, informational stuff on here, they scratch their heads at these kinds of posts.”

This post, as it turns out, is based on sociological studies, not on my own Strange Experiences and Observations.

This is hardly a strange case. The average IQ of blacks goes DOWN during high school.

Performance doesn’t account for much if you are ‘streamed’ through the system by racist teachers. My sister and brother in law are both teachers. My sister at the high school level, and my brother in law at the elementary school level(he teaches science, she teaches the international baccalaureate courses in social sciences). They have seen this and experienced this with their own children! This is a generational thing also. They tryed to discourage my father when he informed the guidance teacher he wanted to go to university. They told him he would be better off taking up menial labour or a trade, which didn’t pay as well as it does now(and how). My sister sees this racist behaviour quite frequently. They particularly seem to have a hard on for black boys at an early age. By the time they get to high school, many are demoralized. After being shat on for years on end, many begin to believe the garbage being fed them and internalize it. It manifesst in many ways. Very few have the wherewithal at that point to say “fuck” it, I’m going to get an education in spite or those a**holes. Many come from homes where their parents work several jobs to keep food on the table. The old school parents have been conditioned themselves so do not question the questionable treatment of their children, or they simply feel that they don’t have a voice. My sister had to go to bat for her own kids on many occasions in spite of being a teacher herself. So no Randy, something ain’t right in the land of Goshen.

I’m not against personal responsibility. In fact I support it and live by it. HOWEVER, why is it EVERYTIME someone uses those words it’s ALWAYS directed towards poor people, or rather poor people of color anywhere and everywhere? Like I said I’m not against it, but I’m frustrated by how it’s used in conversations.

People cry “personal responsibility” as if that’s the only solution to overcome even the worst of oppression. At the same time they declare that absolutely nothing else is the cause, underlying or otherwise, for that person still struggling at the bottom. It’s another way of saying that “those” people are just lazy which has a hint of racial or color disdain. Yes, there are those who overcame adversity, but there are always exceptions to the rule. Exceptions don’t cancel the rule.

I’m just saying.